EDITORIAL: Personal fouls on political foesPolitics, without question, has become an unsavory business. Rivals for elected office have taken the ancient practice of mudslinging to new heights (depths?) in recent years with advertisements th...

EDITORIAL: Boiling image down to its essenceOnce upon a time, “branding” was an activity conducted by cowboys, burning a mark into the hide of free-range to identify the ownership of the animals. The term was also used in some references as ...

The best, worst in us allAdversity, it is often said, reveals character. Such was the case during our recent winter storm, the just-now-disappearing snow and ice that fell and lingered and caused much disruption in our liv...

Cheers to Calvert proposalThe most significant result of the 2012 referendum on alcohol sales in Marshall County was the clear demonstration of how evenly divided county voters are on the issue. The “nays” won it, 6,906 to ...

EDITORIAL: An Epidemic only beginningThe resurgence of heroin use in Marshall County and across the state in recent months comes as no surprise to local law enforcement officials. They were warned of the trend long before it made it t...

EDITORIAL: Just a little more vigilanceEven now, more than a decade after the terrorism of 9/11, nearly three decades since the school shooting tragedy in nearby West Paducah, after the alarm and the loss of innocence events such as tho...

EDITORIAL: An unsavory state of affairsWhat if we held an election and nobody – neither candidates nor voters – came? Not that such a thing is actually, literally possible. Maybe not even likely. But there’s little question that the num...